Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 62 69
Rank change year-on-year -41 +7 -13
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,695 1,937 3,617
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.79% 4.29% 3.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 4.65% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,244 972 2,717
10th Percentile £46,939 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -7.14% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 69,314 41,679 88,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 92.27% 81.73%
Number of salaries quoted 47,751 22,444 62,987
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.41%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,159
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 23 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 23 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -38 1,534 £75,000 +2.04% 419
UK excluding London -74 836 £65,000 -7.14% 300
Work from Home -27 758 £67,500 -3.57% 231
London -8 724 £85,000 +3.03% 196
North of England -42 333 £69,310 -4.40% 94
South East -19 227 £65,000 -7.14% 97
North West -45 182 £75,000 +3.45% 58
South West -70 86 £52,500 -23.39% 40
Midlands -84 86 £67,500 - 28
Yorkshire -28 80 £65,000 -11.79% 20
North East +8 71 £65,000 +2.36% 17
West Midlands -47 60 £80,000 +14.29% 18
East of England -19 46 £60,100 -1.88% 12
Scotland -62 28 £60,000 -24.44% 14
Wales -31 27 £67,500 +29.81% 7
East Midlands -65 25 £65,000 - 10
Northern Ireland -33 7 £62,500 +25.00% 12
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (1.47%) Confluence
2 24 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 14 (0.83%) Apache
3 14 (0.83%) CMS
3 14 (0.83%) IIS
4 10 (0.59%) JBoss
5 9 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.35%) WordPress
8 5 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.29%) Drupal
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.24%) Camunda
9 4 (0.24%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.24%) nginx
10 3 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.18%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.12%) DNN
11 2 (0.12%) EPiServer
Applications
1 9 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.35%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
2 5 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.059%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 909 (53.63%) AWS
2 741 (43.72%) Azure
3 319 (18.82%) GCP
4 257 (15.16%) Serverless
5 176 (10.38%) GitHub
6 173 (10.21%) SaaS
7 145 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
8 121 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
9 104 (6.14%) Amazon EKS
10 101 (5.96%) Amazon S3
11 86 (5.07%) AWS CloudFormation
12 75 (4.42%) Azure Service Bus
13 73 (4.31%) Amazon ECS
14 67 (3.95%) GitHub Copilot
15 66 (3.89%) Amazon EC2
16 61 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
17 60 (3.54%) Azure AKS
18 51 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
19 46 (2.71%) PaaS
20 44 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.78%) Broadband
2 24 (1.42%) Network Security
3 12 (0.71%) DMARC
3 12 (0.71%) MQTT
4 11 (0.65%) DNS
4 11 (0.65%) Internet
5 8 (0.47%) Firewall
5 8 (0.47%) Hyperconnected
5 8 (0.47%) VPN
6 7 (0.41%) AMQP
6 7 (0.41%) DHCP
7 6 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.35%) HTTP
7 6 (0.35%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.29%) LTE
8 5 (0.29%) RFID
9 3 (0.18%) Modbus
10 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.12%) SNMP
10 2 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 250 (14.75%) MongoDB
2 200 (11.80%) NoSQL
3 187 (11.03%) PostgreSQL
4 126 (7.43%) Elasticsearch
5 119 (7.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 102 (6.02%) MySQL
7 80 (4.72%) SQL Server
8 79 (4.66%) Relational Database
9 52 (3.07%) Redis
10 47 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
10 47 (2.77%) DynamoDB
11 28 (1.65%) Big Data
12 26 (1.53%) BigQuery
13 23 (1.36%) RDBMS
14 13 (0.77%) Pinecone
15 9 (0.53%) Data Lake
16 8 (0.47%) Db2
17 7 (0.41%) DTS
17 7 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
18 6 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 201 (11.86%) Git
2 161 (9.50%) GitLab
3 129 (7.61%) Jenkins
4 57 (3.36%) TeamCity
5 50 (2.95%) JIRA
6 46 (2.71%) JUnit
7 39 (2.30%) Cucumber
8 31 (1.83%) Mockito
9 30 (1.77%) Claude Code
9 30 (1.77%) Cypress.io
10 28 (1.65%) CircleCI
10 28 (1.65%) Maven
11 17 (1.00%) Selenium
11 17 (1.00%) SonarQube
11 17 (1.00%) Vite
12 15 (0.88%) JMeter
13 13 (0.77%) Postman
14 12 (0.71%) REST Assured
15 9 (0.53%) Bitbucket
15 9 (0.53%) Spock
General
1 448 (26.43%) Finance
2 306 (18.05%) Social Skills
3 163 (9.62%) Banking
4 151 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 100 (5.90%) Retail
6 98 (5.78%) Analytical Skills
7 91 (5.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 91 (5.37%) Law
8 54 (3.19%) Financial Institution
9 48 (2.83%) Back Office
10 31 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.71%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.53%) Marketing
13 18 (1.06%) Aerospace
14 17 (1.00%) Advertising
15 16 (0.94%) Billing
16 15 (0.88%) Legal
17 13 (0.77%) Games
18 12 (0.71%) Front Office
19 10 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 591 (34.87%) Developer
2 403 (23.78%) Senior
3 344 (20.29%) Software Engineer
4 245 (14.45%) Architect
5 238 (14.04%) Lead
6 154 (9.09%) .NET Developer
7 139 (8.20%) Full-Stack Developer
8 135 (7.96%) Java Developer
9 124 (7.32%) Java Engineer
10 118 (6.96%) Senior Software Engineer
11 115 (6.78%) Senior Developer
12 93 (5.49%) Solutions Architect
13 86 (5.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 77 (4.54%) Principal Engineer
15 68 (4.01%) Software Developer
16 61 (3.60%) Lead Developer
17 57 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
18 53 (3.13%) Senior Java Engineer
19 49 (2.89%) Java Software Engineer
20 44 (2.60%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 416 (24.54%) .NET
2 379 (22.36%) React
3 355 (20.94%) Node.js
4 280 (16.52%) Spring
5 267 (15.75%) RESTful
6 258 (15.22%) Spring Boot
7 225 (13.27%) REST
8 201 (11.86%) Kafka
9 176 (10.38%) ASP.NET
10 175 (10.32%) .NET Core
11 172 (10.15%) AngularJS
12 161 (9.50%) Vue
13 142 (8.38%) ASP.NET Core
14 86 (5.07%) ASP.NET Web API
15 85 (5.01%) .NET Framework
15 85 (5.01%) HTML
16 80 (4.72%) gRPC
17 78 (4.60%) CSS
18 75 (4.42%) Blazor
19 66 (3.89%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 506 (29.85%) Cloud Native
2 293 (17.29%) Distributed Systems
3 116 (6.84%) Product Ownership
4 79 (4.66%) Legacy Systems
5 76 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.71%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.65%) Over-the-Top Content
9 34 (2.01%) Onboarding
10 33 (1.95%) Public Cloud
11 31 (1.83%) Algorithms
12 29 (1.71%) Data Structures
13 27 (1.59%) AI Agents
14 26 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
16 23 (1.36%) e-Learning
16 23 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
16 23 (1.36%) Mobile App
17 22 (1.30%) Virtual Team
18 21 (1.24%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 101 (5.96%) Linux
2 44 (2.60%) Windows
3 20 (1.18%) Unix
4 7 (0.41%) CentOS
4 7 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.29%) Debian
6 5 (0.29%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.18%) Android
7 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) AIX
9 1 (0.059%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 855 (50.44%) CI/CD
2 742 (43.78%) Agile
3 620 (36.58%) DevOps
4 616 (36.34%) Software Engineering
5 472 (27.85%) Full-Stack Development
6 407 (24.01%) Containerisation
7 392 (23.13%) Mentoring
8 354 (20.88%) Test Automation
9 344 (20.29%) Event-Driven
10 331 (19.53%) AI
11 324 (19.12%) Infrastructure as Code
12 319 (18.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 293 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
14 228 (13.45%) Scrum
15 214 (12.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 204 (12.04%) Technical Leadership
17 202 (11.92%) TDD
18 192 (11.33%) Coaching
19 191 (11.27%) Clean Code
20 178 (10.50%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 557 (32.86%) Java
2 420 (24.78%) Python
3 417 (24.60%) SQL
4 410 (24.19%) C#
5 383 (22.60%) JavaScript
6 312 (18.41%) TypeScript
7 118 (6.96%) Go
8 49 (2.89%) Scala
9 44 (2.60%) PHP
10 42 (2.48%) Bash
10 42 (2.48%) C++
11 36 (2.12%) Ruby
12 25 (1.47%) C
13 24 (1.42%) Bicep
13 24 (1.42%) Rust
14 23 (1.36%) PowerShell
15 17 (1.00%) PL/SQL
16 16 (0.94%) Kotlin
17 12 (0.71%) Shell Script
18 11 (0.65%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 204 (12.04%) Security Cleared
2 166 (9.79%) Degree
3 135 (7.96%) SC Cleared
4 82 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (3.60%) AWS Certification
6 34 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 31 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.53%) Azure Certification
8 26 (1.53%) CISSP
9 19 (1.12%) Master's Degree
10 15 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (0.83%) DBS Check
12 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.65%) CISM
14 8 (0.47%) PhD
15 7 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.41%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.29%) ISACA
16 5 (0.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (7.14%) QA
2 57 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 40 (2.36%) GDPR
4 39 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.42%) NIST
5 24 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.36%) SOC 2
7 19 (1.12%) WCAG
8 15 (0.88%) GRC
8 15 (0.88%) NCSC
9 10 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.24%) SEPA
14 3 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.18%) IFRS
14 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
15 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 494 (29.14%) Docker
2 21 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.24%) Firmware
4 3 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.059%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 530 (31.27%) Kubernetes
2 324 (19.12%) Terraform
3 93 (5.49%) Grafana
4 92 (5.43%) Ansible
5 52 (3.07%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.36%) Argo
7 22 (1.30%) Kibana
8 15 (0.88%) Puppet
9 13 (0.77%) Cilium
10 12 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.41%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.24%) Packer
12 4 (0.24%) Podman
13 3 (0.18%) Rancher
14 2 (0.12%) Istio
14 2 (0.12%) MIIS
14 2 (0.12%) Nagios
14 2 (0.12%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.059%) logstash
Vendors
1 244 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 73 (4.31%) Google
3 53 (3.13%) Oracle
4 45 (2.65%) Typelevel
5 32 (1.89%) OpenAI
6 24 (1.42%) Splunk
7 22 (1.30%) Dynatrace
8 17 (1.00%) AppDynamics
9 15 (0.88%) IBM
10 14 (0.83%) Databricks
11 13 (0.77%) Red Hat
11 13 (0.77%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.71%) Adobe
13 10 (0.59%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.59%) SAP
14 9 (0.53%) Guidewire
14 9 (0.53%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.47%) Cisco
15 8 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
16 7 (0.41%) OneLogin